DownTheAvenue wrote:
Sorry, you are mistaken. The officer was NOT able to ascertain if a phone was in use at the time of the crash by typing a number into a computer. There is technology that can determine if a cell phone was in use at certain times, but it requires the actual phone being subject to a piece of hardware to extract that information, not the number typed into a cloud based service! There was a bill in New York legislature requiring cell phone owners to relinquish their phones to police to obtain this information with a warrant, but that bill raised serious 4th Amendment concerns.I don't know if it passed.
Correct, no database.
NEW YORK tried to make it easier for law enforcement...? WHAT...?
While that would have made my job easier, I agree it is WAY to much of a personal invasion of privacy and I agree that a warrant should be required in all but the most exigent of circumstances. People's cell phones can contain very private information. Its no longer simply a communication device, but a computer/diary/camera/etc with an absurd amount of extremely personal information.
If that bill somehow passed (I can't imagine how it would have), I am sure it was IMMEDIATELY overturned. That cannot be constitutional.
